These updated discussions are driven ostensibly (and rightly so) by efforts to protect native Bull Trout in the Flathead system watershed, though management issues in the Flathead will forever be colored by the 1968 Mysis shrimp debacle and the subsequent Lake Trout invasion. It’s a long and colorful story.

If you have any interest at all in native fish issues, here’s a living laboratory evolving as we speak; the Flathead TU docs are quick, ‘must-reads’ on the key issues. If the Flathead system story isn’t the most fascinating example of man tinkering with native fish populations (in a readily observable watershed system) in the world today it’s clearly in the top three.